Thalassarche carteri Skull Replica or Indian Yellow-Nosed Albatross measures 7 inches. Indian Yellow-Nosed Albatross Skull is museum quality polyurethane cast. Made in USA. Cast of Original UC Santa Cruz specimen.
The Thalassarche carteri or Indian yellow-nosed albatross (Thalassarche carteri) is a member of the albatross family, and is the smallest of the mollymawks.
The Indian yellow-nosed albatross weighs 5.6 lb. is 30 in. long and is 6.6 ft. across the wings.
Like all albatrosses, the Thalassarche carteri or Indian yellow-nosed albatross is a colonial breeder. It breeds annually,and the adults begin breeding at the age of ten years.
Yellow-nosed Albatrosses reach sexual maturity around 10 years of age. They generally breed every other year, and are monogamous.The breeding season begins in September.
The albatrosses form breeding colonies on the islands of the mid-Atlantic between Africa and South America.The nests are raised affairs built from peat, feathers, vegetation, and mud. One egg is laid. Both parents will take turns incubating the egg and taking care of the chick once it hatches, switching off to go fishing.
Incubation lasts around 70 days. After hatching the chick takes around 115 days to fledge. Once fledged the chicks will not return to land again for up to 5 years.
The adult Thalassarche carteri or Indian yellow-nosed albatross has a pale grey or white head and nape, with a dark grey mantle, upperwing, and tail. Its rump and underparts are white, and its underwing is white with a black tip with a narrow black margin at the leading edge.
Its bill is black with a yellow upper ridge and a red tip. The juvenile has a white head and all black bill.
Yellow-nosed Albatrosses have a number of different ways in which they feed. They are divers, plunging under schools of fish which they then herd towards the surface where they are easier to catch.
They are also bullies, stealing food from other sea birds like the White-chinned Petrel.
They are one of the species of bird that will closely follow fishing boats in order to pick up any offal thrown overboard.
Thalassarche carteri or Indian yellow-nosed albatross are a type of albatross that belong to the family Diomedeidae of the order Procellariiformes, along with shearwaters, fulmars, storm petrels, and diving petrels.
They share certain identifying features. They have nasal passages called naricorns attached to the upper bill. The bills of Thalassarche carteri or Indian yellow-nosed albatross are unique in that they are split into between seven and nine horny plates.
They make a stomach oil made of wax esters and triglycerides that is stored in the proventriculus. This is used against predators and as an energy rich food source for chicks and for the adults during their long flights.
They have a salt gland above the nasal passage. It helps desalinate their bodies, due to the high amount of ocean water that they imbibe.
